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Brevard Healthcare Workforce Consortium

Ensuring that local healthcare industry employers have the skilled talent needed to provide the best possible medical care for our local community is vital to the economy of Brevard County. Working within our community to establish and maintain talent pipelines that train local talent in healthcare-related competencies needed by employers within the healthcare industry provides employment opportunities with sustainable wages or career ladders to self-sustaining wages for local workers and their families.

A robust, quality healthcare system within Brevard County is vital for attracting new businesses to the local area as well as retaining existing local companies as access to quality care is a major factor in business location and relocation. It is in everyone’s best interest who lives and works in Brevard County to ensure that local healthcare industry organizations thrive. With this in mind healthcare industry representatives, educational partners, workforce development entities and other community stakeholders have come together to form the Brevard Healthcare Workforce Consortium to develop a local healthcare sector strategy to identify and implement actionable strategies to strengthen the local healthcare talent pipeline.

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Advancing In Healthcare

The Brevard Healthcare Workforce Consortium brings together healthcare industry representatives, educational partners, workforce development entities and other community stakeholders to develop a local healthcare sector strategy to identify and implement actionable strategies to strengthen the local healthcare talent pipeline.

Sector News

CareerSource Brevard is holding a Healthcare Career Fair on September 19, 2018 from 3-6pm at 295 Barnes Blvd., Rockledge, FL. More than 20 hiring managers will be on site recruiting for positions in Hospital, Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, Dental Office, Home and Behavioral health settings. Employment opportunities include Certified Nursing Assistants, Home Health Aides, Licensed […]

Now is a great time to start your healthcare career! Why? Employment projections from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity indicate Brevard County healthcare industry employment for 2017-2025 will increase in Hospitals by 6.6%, Nursing and Residential Care Facilities by 21.3%, and Ambulatory Health Care Services by 19.3%. This explosive industry growth, coupled with lower […]

Palm Point Behavioral Health is an 80-bed behavioral health hospital currently under construction in Titusville, Florida minutes from Cape Canaveral. With an anticipated opening this Fall, Palm Point Behavioral Health will treat adults and adolescents that suffer from a wide range of behavioral health diagnoses including, depression, anxiety and substance abuse in a modern and […]

Sector Progress

Staffing Committee

The Staffing Committee addresses the recruitment and retention of talent, prioritizing skill shortages in the healthcare industry. Initiatives are developed and recommendations are presented to the Brevard Healthcare Workforce Consortium at periodic meetings. Our current focus is the recruitment and retention of:

Education, Training and Technology Committee

The Education, Training and Technology Committee focuses on the talent pipeline, keeping our trained talent in Brevard County and our training institutions staffed and equipped with current technology. We are addressing these issues:

Current Brevard pipeline of CNAs, LPNs and RNs does not produce enough talent to fill local employer needs

Retention of healthcare-oriented students in Brevard County

Attraction of Nursing Faculty to fill vacancies

Alignment of classroom technology with technology required in varying environment

Soft Skills Committee

The Soft Skills Committee has been created to address the issue that Soft Skills are lacking in the workforce. Our goal is to increase the interpersonal skills and work readiness skills in the current workforce and future workforce. We are working on initiatives to address soft skills and also provide recommendations to the Brevard Healthcare Workforce Consortium. FIND OUT ABOUT EVENTS and GET PROGRESS REPORTS. LEARN MORE